Green Energy
American Spectator:
My Thoughts on Watching the Dems Stab the Constitution on the Congressional Floor
By Ben Stein
1. This is a "bill" that is clearly not really a Constitutionally allowable legislative entity, eligible for signature into law. For it to be that, it would need to be identically passed in both houses. It was not. It was passed as a corned beef hash of vague promises in the Senate. Then a vote was taken in the House to eventually pass the same bill but with a few changes and a further vague promise to reconcile both versions. This is not how the Constitution defines a bill en route to becoming a law. This is just a demand by President Obama to submit to his authority, which the Democrats meekly passed. This is not Constitutional.
2. The slovenly laziness of the Majority to not even read the vague bits of the bill floating around is further evidence of contempt for law and the Constitution.
3. This is not how the U.S. government is supposed to work. This is how a South American junta does its work with a puppet legislature and a supreme Caudillo above law. This is, tragically, Barack Obama's America. It took a mere 14 months to get us from the government of Jefferson to the government of Trujillo.
4. The supine cowardice of the mainstream media here is almost beyond imagining. To fail to even notice the attack on the Constitution going on here is stunning and discouraging in the extreme.
5. For those of us who still believe in the Constitution, I offer the words of the great civil rights anthem, "We shall overcome, " and "We are not afraid." In that spirit, we continue the fight for the return to Constitutional government. Loyal to the nation and the Constitution, but most certainly opposed to the subversion or either.
As Churchill said, "In war, resolution. In defeat, defiance."
And this is a war for Constitutional government. A war of words, to be sure, but a war we must win.
6. One more thought. If Mr. Obama's goal really is to protect life and health, the surest way to do that would be a right to life amendment to the Constitution. May we expect that proposal from Mr. Obama soon?
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Green Energy
American Spectator:
My Thoughts on Watching the Dems Stab the Constitution on the Congressional Floor
By Ben Stein
1. This is a "bill" that is clearly not really a Constitutionally allowable legislative entity, eligible for signature into law. For it to be that, it would need to be identically passed in both houses. It was not. It was passed as a corned beef hash of vague promises in the Senate. Then a vote was taken in the House to eventually pass the same bill but with a few changes and a further vague promise to reconcile both versions. This is not how the Constitution defines a bill en route to becoming a law. This is just a demand by President Obama to submit to his authority, which the Democrats meekly passed. This is not Constitutional.
2. The slovenly laziness of the Majority to not even read the vague bits of the bill floating around is further evidence of contempt for law and the Constitution.
3. This is not how the U.S. government is supposed to work. This is how a South American junta does its work with a puppet legislature and a supreme Caudillo above law. This is, tragically, Barack Obama's America. It took a mere 14 months to get us from the government of Jefferson to the government of Trujillo.
4. The supine cowardice of the mainstream media here is almost beyond imagining. To fail to even notice the attack on the Constitution going on here is stunning and discouraging in the extreme.
5. For those of us who still believe in the Constitution, I offer the words of the great civil rights anthem, "We shall overcome, " and "We are not afraid." In that spirit, we continue the fight for the return to Constitutional government. Loyal to the nation and the Constitution, but most certainly opposed to the subversion or either.
As Churchill said, "In war, resolution. In defeat, defiance."
And this is a war for Constitutional government. A war of words, to be sure, but a war we must win.
6. One more thought. If Mr. Obama's goal really is to protect life and health, the surest way to do that would be a right to life amendment to the Constitution. May we expect that proposal from Mr. Obama soon?
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The president of the United States accusing HALF the US Senate, of forming a coalition with racist and genocidal freaks in Iran, after his key aide Ben Rhodes was caught on tape disclosing that the Obama admin was keeping key concepts of the Iran ‘deal’...
-
Washington Times: Bipartisan Congress rebuffs Obama on Libya mission Crossing party lines to deliver a stunning rebuke to the commander in chief, the vast majority of the House voted Friday for resolutions telling President Obama he has broken the constitutional...
- Five More States Invoke The 10th
which brings us to 16. Nearly a third of them. And I believe Pennsylvania will be doing so in the coming 2 weeks. from Human Events: Five More States Invoke the 10th by A.W.R. Hawkins (more by this author) Posted 03/04/2009 ET Last week, HUMAN EVENTS...
- States Rebelling, Not Seceding
This is not a dead horse being beaten, yet. 11 states have now passed 10th Amendment resolutions. A number, including Bobby Jindal in Louisiana, are refusing to take stimulus money, possibly setting up or a Constitutional showdown. Congress has overstepped...
- Storm Track Disinformation: This Is Known As Leftist Insanity
I wonder what county this writer at the Daily Kos is living in. better yet, what fantasy world. It seems the Kos thinks we are no better than, no, worse than the Nazis. We have become the Nazis our fathers (mine in particular!), fought to rid the world...